July 28, 2006
DEADWOOD MIGHT NOT BE FOR EVERYONE
The HBO series "Deadwood" is superlative tv in my mind. It has ruffled some feathers because of the excessively profane nature of its dialogue. The script is not blunt, however, rather featuring characters that speak in a ridiculously baroque and overmannered style, interspersed with aforementioned profanity.
Someone--Justin Schleigel--made a short film called "Deadwood Pancakes", parodying the show's dialogue. Here's a link to the film. Here's a transcription.
"Deadwood" Pancakes
Pancakes . . . BEFORE watching HBO's "Deadwood"[roommate stands in front of kitchen range with frying pan]
"Hey Schleigel! You want some pancakes?"
[man at table, cheerful]
"Oh yeah that'd be great! Can I get some butter and syrup?
[roommate, agreeably]
"You GOT it!"
Pancakes . . . AFTER HBO Series "Deadwood"
[roommate stands in front of kitchen range with frying pan]"Hey Schleigel! You want some pancakes?"
[man chewing furiously on toothpick at table]
"Well I hope within the confines of that most charitable fucking offer, you decide to provide me with the necessary peripherals and accompaniements that I might properly enjoy such a morning time fucking culinary work of fucking art, you stupid son of a bitch! Because if I am not provided with adequate peripherals to that morning time delight for both soul, body, and tatebuds, I shall smack you so fucking hard upside that stupid fucking gimp head of yours, as to knock your contact lens up in the front of your brain, providing you with the moment of fucking clarity in which you willl say out loud to yourself 'Why did I not provide this cocksucker with the syrup and or butter that he requested at the outset of this fucking breakfast endeavor?' You dumb son of a bitch!"
[roommate cheerfully]
"You GOT it! Cocksucker"
While this is a parody, it literally could have been lifted verbatim from one of "Deadwood"'s scripts.
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